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"Monkey Wrench" is a song by American rock band Foo Fighters. It was released as the lead single from their second album, The Colour and the Shape . The lyrics chronicle the 1997 disintegration of singer/songwriter Dave Grohl 's four-year marriage to Jennifer Youngblood.
The Colour and the Shape is the second studio album by American rock band Foo Fighters, released on May 20, 1997, by Roswell and Capitol Records.It was the first album by the Foo Fighters to be recorded as a full band, as the previous self-titled album (1995) was both written and recorded entirely by frontman Dave Grohl.
The Foo Fighters are an American rock ... The album included the singles "Monkey Wrench", ... which Letterman said had significant meaning for him after his ...
Since 1995, Dave Grohl and the Foo Fighters have reigned as one of the most commercially successful rock bands in the world, but the project’s auspicious beginnings belie its enduring popularity.
In late 1996, Dave Grohl was lodging at Bear Creek Studios in Woodinville, Washington, recording what was to be the second Foo Fighters album.While playing around with his guitar during downtime between takes of the song "Monkey Wrench" (which is in drop D tuning), he stumbled on a "Sonic Youth rip off" riff, [7] which he felt had the same vibe as one of that band's songs, "Schizophrenia". [8]
Greatest Hits includes a selection of Foo Fighters hit singles. Two singles from their 1995 debut, Foo Fighters album ("This Is a Call" and "Big Me") are included. Three singles are included from 1997's The Colour and the Shape album ("Monkey Wrench", "Everlong" and "My Hero"). The Colour and the Shape remains the band's biggest selling album ...
Grohl directed the Foo Fighters music videos for "Monkey Wrench" (1997), "My Hero" (1998), "All My Life" (2002), "White Limo" (2011), and "Rope" (2011), as well as all the music videos from the Sonic Highways and Concrete and Gold era. Outside of Foo Fighters, he also filmed the music video for Soundgarden's "By Crooked Steps" (2014).
On 13 June in Manchester, the first night of the UK leg of the tour, the band opened with "Monkey Wrench", swapping places with "All My Life". [21] On 13 June in Manchester, the band debuted unreleased track "Unconditional" before "Aurora". [21] This was played again on 14 June in Manchester and on 17 June in Glasgow.